Love at the first sight - Cruising for adults ("stolen") - Finally you get the goody normally only kids get somewhere - That is all I love Holland America Line for. And it might sound stupid: You can experience a wonderful cruise on a small ship like RYNDAM too.

A view to the breakfast offer in the Lido Market Place (= self service restaurant). They even had congee and very nice. The only reason to see here every morning. Unfortunately there was no juicer available.

In the cabin: everything was kept best: fruits, laundry. Shankar was deck housekeeping supervisor. We even had light-therapy in the bathroom. It was flittering slightly. You noticed it without standing in the dark. Might ouccur an epileptical attack with some people. Unfortunately there was nothing you can do! Wan not only with us and the electrician on board could not find the source. We still had day 4 and they wanted already us leaving the ship.

Bruno prefered to see the Royal Dutch Café because they brew coffee Barista-style. The cups... Royal Delft... I was sure they would be stolen frequently... Lisanne and Mandy took always in a very lovely way for Bruno's requests.

That day I was taking a Scandinavian breakfast. With haring at an early morning. I got my personal iced tea arrangement automatically on my table. Now we ordered some cottage cheese with the fruits. Normally you will never hear a no on a Holland America ship, but they had no dragon fruit onbaord. Otherwise I would get one for sure. Dewa and Harry pampered us very much again. Service which made a lot of pleasure.

It became a little uncalm. I took some with me. I did not need them. But maybe one of my fellow-cruisers.

Again re-entering the Schengen-Zone. The passports were kept ready for collection on every deck. Again perfectly organised. But why the chaos when entering UK? The British immigration might have artists like a band or singers. They could make a special arrangement: they perform in the night and during the day they do inspection of passports during the day at sea...

Very great: they had an Internet-Manager again onboard who could give support in a very qualified way: Amith. The last time on EURODAM the support was like this: "Are you sure that you entered properly? Yes? OK you get a refund of your money! I could not say anything to the contents of your problems because I had no knowledge on computers." I told him of the automatic Windows-updates. He was surprised and asked to see my computer. But due to the partnership of Microsoft and Holland America the bord own servers were used to release updates peer-to-peer.

Very cold in the Retreat. But with tea from aExploirations Café and a wool blanket it was easy to stay there all the time.

No more Royal Dutch High Tea and no more Indonesian Tea-Time anymore. Instead English Tea-Time on tier-plates with some palm court music and again the Asian couples who used eveery occasion to show their talents. They did it really with passion even noobody else hat space to dance. I took more care of the fabulous cucumber-cress-sandwiches. Where should I get my vol au vent all you can eat from? That was my true reason to book Holland America... Vol au Vent à discretion like the Swiss would say: as much as you want...

I went to the Lincoln Center Stage. The quite-signs were ignored by the Mexicans so I need to intervene. Was a quite unpleasant location at the main transit road. But it was also possible to thrill people for classical music who were normally not interested into. The 1st and 3rd show were same. Only I could not get anything to drink. During the performance there was no service available.

In the evening they had a German guest entertainer: Andy Bünger. He did not always my taste of music (some Octoberfest-Beer-Tent-Music for the Americans who loved to sway collectively with the music and would be most disappointed if a German musician would not play such music...) but it was still a lot of fun to see the show. Especially the fight of beats with the ship's drummer. Two on a way. You could see them sweating bloor and tears on the stage. A little like Recylced Percussion last year on EURODAM. I could see this for hours.

We continued our lovely night in our "post office". We had a great team: Widi and Indra: we experienced a fantastic service (filet the fish) and Sigi got a paper rose. The dinner was that night very good. New was serving the broth seperately and added at the table to the soup vegetables.

The evening went to the end in a funny way: with Billboard onboard. Cocktails, singing along and eating more. To avoid that anyone miss a song to sing along you could get here some food. That night we stayed in the 3rd/4th row... We did not drink so much to join in the 1st row... With alcohol-free cocktails it would take a while. Good night.

Über mich / About me

lebt in einer glücklichen Partnerschaft... pendelt zuviel... einerseits zwischen seinem Arbeits- und Wohnort. Ansonsten auch mittlerweile zuviel in der Weltgeschichte.
lives in a happy partnership... commutes too much... between his home and his work... but also around the world.